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ROSE MADDER by  author photo by Tabitha King]  photograph by George Kerrigan - Signed First Edition - 1995 - from Other Worlds Bookstore and Biblio.com
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Norman and Rose have been married for 14 years, during which time he has abused her regularly. Finally, he beats her while she is pregnant, causing a miscarriage. Rose escapes him, and he begins to hunt for her, leaving gruesome corpses as he goes; thinking she is free of Norman, Rose begins a new life in the Midwest, becoming involved with a pawnshop owner and drawn to a painting of a goddess.


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"Stephen King's fiction is crowded with ingenious monsters, but few of them are as disturbing as Norman Daniels, the lethal figure stalking the heroine of Mr. King's latest novel, 'Rose Madder'....Rose doesn't leave Norman because she's afraid he'll kill her--she's driven to escape by the fear that he won't, that his cruel torments will simply go on and on. Her despair, her gradual creation of a new life..., her hesitant romance with a wry, gentle pawnbroker, are all convincingly rendered. The theme of abuse has given Mr. King's recent novels a welcome jolt of energy."

ROSE MADDER

by King, Stephen [Dust Wrapper design by Neil Stuart, photograph by George Kerrigan, author photo by Tabitha King]

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Book description: [New York]: Viking [1995], 1995. First US edition. This copy has apparently been signed [with an underscore] by the author on the front free endpaper. [There is no useful provenance for the signature, thus its authenticity, or lack thereof, becomes a matter of opinion rather than fact]. If you can not see the accompanying scan of the signature, one is available to any interested party. 420 pages. Spine heel badly bumped/jammed, some areas of external only moderate waterstaining to/near the spine ends [with some dye transfer onto the blind side of the Dust Wrapper] else lightly bumped VG copy [with lower corner creasing/crimping to some pages] in externally VG+ or better Dust Wrapper.. Signed. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good.

  • Bookseller: Other Worlds Bookstore US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 49329
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Fair
  • Jacket condition: Very Good
  • Edition: First Edition Thus
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0670858692
  • ISBN 13: 9780670858699
  • Publisher: Viking [1995]
  • Place: [New York]
  • Date published: 1995
  • Size: 6.75 x 9.75 x 1.75 inches
  • Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Keywords: HORROR TERROR SUSPENSE FICTION

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